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AN APPRECIATION OF
ANATOLE FRANCE

By WILLIAM J. LOCKE

The personal note in Anatole France’s novels is never more surely felt than when he himself, in some disguise, is either the protagonist or the _raisonneur_ of the drama. It is the personality of Monsieur Bergeret that sheds its sunset kindness over the sordid phases of French political and social life presented in the famous series. It is the charm of Sylvestre Bonnard that makes an idyll of the story of his crime. It is Doctor Trublet in _Histoire Comique_ who gives humanity to the fantastic adventure. It is Maître Jérôme Coignard whom we love unreservedly in _La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque_. No writer is more personal. No writer views human affairs from a more impersonal standpoint. He hovers over the world like a disembodied spirit, wise with the learning of all times and with the knowledge of all hearts that have beaten, yet not so serene and unfleshly as not to have preserved a certain tricksiness, a capacity for puckish laughter which echoes through his pages and haunts the ear when the covers of the book are closed. At the same time he appears unmistakably before you, in human guise, speaking to you face to face in human tones. He will present tragic happenings consequent on the little follies, meannesses and passions of mankind with an emotionlessness which would be called delicate cruelty were the view point that of one of the sons of earth, but ceases to be so when the presenting hands are calm and immortal; and yet shining through all is the man himself, loving and merciful, tender and warm.... In most men similarly endowed there has been a conflict between the twin souls which has generally ended in the strangling of the artist; but in the case of Anatole France they have worked together in bewildering harmony. The philosopher has been mild, the artist unresentful. In amity therefore they have proclaimed their faith and their unfaith, their aspirations and their negations, their earnestness and their mockery. And since they must proclaim them in one single voice, the natural consequence, the resultant as it were of the two forces, has been a style in which beauty and irony are so subtly interfused as to make it perhaps the most alluring mode of expression in contemporary fiction.

_The following Volumes appear in the Uniform English Edition of Anatole France’s works:—_

THE RED LILY

A TRANSLATION BY WINIFRED STEPHENS

MOTHER OF PEARL

A TRANSLATION BY THE EDITOR

THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS

A TRANSLATION BY ALFRED ALLINSON

THE CRIME OF SILVESTRE BONNARD

A TRANSLATION BY LAFCADIO HEARN

THE WELL OF ST. CLARE

A TRANSLATION BY ALFRED ALLINSON

THAÏS

A TRANSLATION BY ROBERT BRUCE DOUGLAS

THE WICKER-WORK WOMAN

A TRANSLATION BY M. P. WILLCOCKS

THE WHITE STONE

A TRANSLATION BY C. E. ROCHE

PENGUIN ISLAND

A TRANSLATION BY A. W. EVANS

BALTHASAR

A TRANSLATION BY MRS. JOHN LANE

THE ELM TREE ON THE MALL

A TRANSLATION BY M. P. WILLCOCKS

ON LIFE AND LETTERS. FIRST SERIES

A TRANSLATION BY A. W. EVANS

THE MERRIE TALES OF JACQUES TOURNE-BROCHE.

A TRANSLATION BY ALFRED ALLINSON

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AT THE SIGN OF THE REINE PÉDAUQUE

A TRANSLATION BY MRS. WILFRID JACKSON

JOCASTA AND THE FAMISHED CAT

A TRANSLATION BY MRS. FARLEY

THE ASPIRATIONS OF JEAN SERVIEN

A TRANSLATION BY ALFRED ALLINSON

THE OPINIONS OF JÉRÔME COIGNARD

A TRANSLATION BY MRS. WILFRID JACKSON

MY FRIEND’S BOOK

A TRANSLATION BY J. LEWIS MAY

ON LIFE AND LETTERS. SECOND, THIRD, AND FOURTH SERIES

A TRANSLATION BY A. W. EVANS

THE GODS ARE ATHIRST

A TRANSLATION BY ALFRED ALLINSON

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GATES OF THE DOLOMITES. By L. MARION DAVIDSON. With 32 Illustrations
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THE INTIMATE LETTERS OF HESTER PIOZZI AND PENELOPE PENNINGTON 1788-1821.
Edited by OSWALD G. KNAPP. With 32 Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.

⁂ This work is a most important find and should arouse immense
interest amongst the large number of persons whom the Johnson cult
attracts to anything concerning Mrs. Piozzi.

Mr. Knapp gives 198 letters dating from 1788 to 1821. The letters are
most delightful reading and place Mrs. Piozzi in a somewhat different
aspect than she has been viewed in hitherto. The attitude of her
Thrale daughters to her is shown to be quite unwarrantable, and her
semi humorous acceptance of the calumny and persecution she suffered
arouses our admiration.

The Illustrations to this charming work have been mainly supplied from
Mr. A. M. Broadley’s unique collection.

CHANGING RUSSIA. A Tramp along the Black Sea Shore and in the Urals. By
STEPHEN GRAHAM. Author of “Undiscovered Russia,” “A Vagabond in the
Caucasus,” etc. With Illustrations and a Map. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.

ROBERT FULTON ENGINEER AND ARTIST: HIS LIFE AND WORK. By H. W.
DICKINSON, A.M.I.Mech.E. Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

GEORGE BUBB DODDINGTON, LORD MELCOMBE. By LLOYD SANDERS. With numerous
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CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR ARTHUR HELPS, K.C.B., D.C.L. By E. A. HELPS. With
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⁂ Sir Arthur Helps was a notable figure among the literary men of the
last generation, and as Clerk to the Privy Council enjoyed the
confidence and friendship of Queen Victoria, while his magnetic
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witty and wise sayings are here preserved. Not only was he on terms of
intimacy with Tennyson, Dean Stanley, John Stuart Mill, Gladstone,
Disraeli, Ruskin, Frowde, Carlyle, Dickens, Kingsley, and other men of
light and leading, many letters from whom are included in the volume,
but he was ever in the vanguard of philanthropic movements.

The present collection of letters deals with the topics of the day,
and burning questions such as the Chartist agitation, the American
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⁂ Mr. Sherrill has already achieved success with his two previous
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writer’s sympathy with the craft. Mr. Sherrill is not only an
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worthy to occupy the position.

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⁂ “Mr. Coleridge’s memories are very crisply and clearly written. He
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Ruskin, Watts, Whistler, and Irving. It was at Lord Coleridge’s house
that Cardinal Newman and Matthew Arnold first met.”—_Daily Telegraph._

ANTHONY TROLLOPE: HIS WORK, ASSOCIATES AND ORIGINALS. By T. H. S.
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⁂ “The whole of this book is admirably done, and no one who is
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ORIENTAL RUGS, ANTIQUE AND MODERN. By WALTER A. HAWLEY. With numerous
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ON THE LEFT OF A THRONE. A personal Study of James, Duke of Monmouth. By
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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH PATRIOTISM. By ESMÉ C. WINGFIELD STRATFORD,
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⁂ The author may fairly claim to have accomplished what few previous
historians have so much as attempted. He has woven together the
threads of religion, politics, war, philosophy, literature, painting,
architecture, law and commerce, into a narrative of unbroken and
absorbing interest.

⁂ “Mr. Wingfield Stratford is to be congratulated on a great
achievement.”—_Outlook._

CHARLES CONDER: HIS LIFE AND WORK. By FRANK GIBSON. With a Catalogue of
the Lithographs and Etchings by CAMPBELL DODGSON, M.S., Keeper of
Prints and Drawings, British Museum. With about 100 reproductions of
Conder’s work, 12 of which are in colour. Demy 4to. 21s. net.

⁂ With the exception of one or two articles in English Art Magazines,
and one or two in French, German, and American periodicals, no book up
to the present has appeared fully to record the life and work of
Charles Condor, by whose death English Art has lost one of its most
original personalities. Consequently it has been felt that a book
dealing with Conder’s life so full of interest, and his work so full
of charm and beauty, illustrated by characteristic examples of his Art
both in colour and in black and white, would be welcome to the already
great and increasing number of his admirers.

The author of this book, Mr. Frank Gibson, who knew Conder in his
early days in Australia and afterwards in England during the rest of
the artist’s life, is enabled in consequence to do full justice, not
only to the delightful character of Conder as a friend, but is also
able to appreciate his remarkable talent.

The interest and value of this work will be greatly increased by the
addition of a complete catalogue of Conder’s lithographs and
engravings, compiled by Mr. Campbell Dodgson, M.A., Keeper of the
Print-Room of the British Museum.

PHILIP DUKE OF WHARTON. By LEWIS MELVILLE. Illustrated. Demy 8vo. 16s.
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⁂ A character more interesting than Philip, Duke of Wharton, does not
often fall to the lot of a biographer, yet, by some strange chance,
though nearly two hundred years have passed since that wayward genius
passed away, the present work is the first that gives a comprehensive
account of his life. A man of unusual parts and unusual charm, he at
once delighted and disgusted his contemporaries. Unstable as water, he
was like Dryden’s Zimri, “Everything by starts and nothing long.” He
was poet and pamphleteer, wit, statesman, buffoon, and amorist. The
son of one of the most stalwart supporters of the Hanoverian dynasty,
he went abroad and joined the Pretender, who created him a duke. He
then returned to England, renounced the Stuarts, and was by George I.
also promoted to a dukedom—while he was yet a minor. He was the friend
of Attenbury and the President of the Hell-Fire Club. At one time he
was leading Spanish troops against his countrymen, at another seeking
consolation in a monastery. It is said that he was the original of
Richardson’s Lovelace.

THE MANNERS OF MY TIME. By Miss C. L. HAWKINS DEMPSTER. With numerous
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THE LIFE OF MADAME TALLIEN, NOTRE DAME DE THERMIDOR (A Queen of Shreds
and Patches.) From the last days of the French Revolution, until her
death as Princess de Chimay in 1835. By L. GASTINE. Translated from
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other Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.

⁂ There is no one in the history of the French Revolution who has been
more eagerly canonised than Madame Tallien; yet according to M.
Gastine, there is no one in that history who merited canonisation so
little. He has therefore set himself the task of dissipating the mass
of legend and sentiment that has gathered round the memory of “_La
Belle Tallien_” and of presenting her to our eyes as she really was.
The result of his labour is a volume, which combines the scrupulous
exactness of conscientious research with the richness and glamour of a
romance. In the place of the beautiful heroic but purely imaginary
figure of popular tradition, we behold a woman, dowered indeed with
incomparable loveliness, but utterly unmoral, devoid alike of heart
and soul, who readily and repeatedly prostituted her personal charms
for the advancement of her selfish and ignoble aims. Though Madame
Tallien is the central figure of the book, the reader is introduced to
many other personages who played famous or infamous rôles in the
contemporary social or political arena, and the volume, which is
enriched by a number of interesting portraits, throws a new and
valuable light on this stormy and perennially fascinating period of
French history.

MINIATURES: A Series of Reproductions in Photogravure of Ninety-Six
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Queen of Norway, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Victoria.
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RECOLLECTIONS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT. By his Valet FRANÇOIS. Translated
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MONTAGU. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other Illustrations.
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ENGLISH TRAVELLERS OF THE RENAISSANCE. By CLARE HOWARD. With 12
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SOPHIE DAWES, QUEEN OF CHANTILLY. By VIOLETTE M. MONTAGU. Author of “The
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⁂ Among the many queens of France, queens by right of marriage with
the reigning sovereign, queens of beauty or of intrigue, the name of
Sophie Dawes, the daughter of humble fisherfolk in the Isle of Wight,
better known as “the notorious Mme. de Feucheres,” “The Queen of
Chantilly” and “The Montespan de Saint Leu” in the land which she
chose as a suitable sphere in which to exercise her talents for
money-making and for getting on in the world, stand forth as a proof
of what a woman’s will can accomplish when that will is accompanied
with an uncommon share of intelligence.

TRAVELS WITHOUT BAEDEKER. By ARDERN BEAMAN. Demy 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.

⁂ An entertaining book of unconventional travel—unconventional as the
author progressed more on the lines of a tramp than a tourist, from
Aden to Port Said, afterwards through Cairo and Alexandria, then on to
Jaffa and Jerusalem, then into Greece and Turkey, and finally on to
Venice. He constantly travelled third class amongst crowds of filthy
natives and on at least one occasion made a steamer voyage in the
steerage, but he had experiences he could not have obtained in any
other way, and kept a light heart and amused countenance through it
all.

MADAME DE BRINVILLIERS AND HER TIMES, 1630-1676. By HUGH STOKES. With a
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MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM THOMSON, ARCH-BISHOP OF YORK. By Mrs. WILFRED
THOMSON. With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 16s. net.

HARRIET HOSMER: LETTERS AND MEMORIES. Edited by CORNELIA CARR. With 31
Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.

⁂ These pages are full of interest to the general reader, owing to the
fact that Harriet Hosmer was on intimate terms with so many of her
most famous contemporaries in the World of Art and Letters.
Particularly valuable will be found the authentic and charmingly
recounted information regarding the home life of Robert Browning and
his wife. The correspondence shows that in nearly every case the
letters of these celebrities were never intended for print. They are,
all the more perhaps, indications of the true characteristics of the
writers.

THE GREATEST HOUSE AT CHELSEY. By RANDALL DAVIES. With 18 Illustrations.
Demy 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

⁂ This is a most fascinating account of the great house built at
Chelsea in 1520, by Sir Thomas More, and occupied successively by
various notable people, among whom were Sir Arthur Gorges, the Duke of
Buckingham, and finally Sir Hans Sloane. Each of the successive owners
is dealt with by Mr. Randall Davies in most entertaining fashion, and
a great deal of historical detail is brought together which has never
seen the light before. The illustrations are of great interest.

WITH THE TIN GODS. By MRS. HORACE TREMLETT. With 24 Illustrations from
Photographs. Demy 8vo. 12s. 6d. net.

⁂ Mrs. Tremlett went with her husband and some other members of a
syndicate on a journey in search of tin in Northern Nigeria. This book
is a racy, entertaining and very human account of their adventures.
There are no tedious descriptions of the country or the natives but
the atmosphere and the life are vividly suggested and the narrative is
brightened by many stories and touches of humour. The book is
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ADVENTURES WITH A SKETCH BOOK. By DONALD MAXWELL. Illustrated by the
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⁂ This book provides a new departure from the conventional methods of
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books, plates printed on a shiny paper.

With regard to the text the reader will feel that he is an active
partaker in Mr. Maxwell’s explorations and romantic expeditions in
numerous unexpected places all over Europe. It is a book that will
make a delightful possession.

NAPOLEON AND KING MURAT. A Biography compiled from hitherto Unknown and
Unpublished Documents. By ALBERT ESPITALIER. Translated from the
French by J. LEWIS MAY. With a Photogravure Frontispiece and 16 other
Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._ net.

LADY CHARLOTTE SCHREIBER’S JOURNALS. Confidences of a Collector of
Ceramics and Antiques throughout Britain, France, Germany, Italy,
Spain, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, and Turkey. From the year 1869
to 1885. Edited by MONTAGUE GUEST, with Annotations by EGAN MEW. With
upwards of 100 Illustrations, including 8 in colour and 2 in
Photogravure. Royal 8vo. 2 volumes. 42_s._ net.

CHRONICLES OF ERTHIG ON THE DYKE. From Original Letters preserved in the
House. By ALBINIA CUST. With Illustrations from Photographs. In 2
vols. 25s. net.

⁂ The story is not of a Family but of a House. In the oak-panelled
library are parchments, manuscripts, old printed books, and the
letters—frail yet enduring souvenirs of a vanished past. Never
intended for publication, they have an interest so poignant as to be
realised only in the reading. The writers with their joys and sorrows
seem to live again in these pages, conjuring up visions of the scenes
amid which they played their little part.

A MOTOR TOUR THROUGH CANADA. By THOMAS WILBY. With 32 Illustrations.
Crown 8vo. 5s. net.

⁂ A capital account of a trip from Halifax to the Pacific Coast. Mr.
Wilby brings the scene most vividly home to the reader and he blends,
with considerable skill, history and narrative. The Photographs also
give an excellent idea of the tour.

WITH THE RUSSIANS IN MONGOLIA. By H. G. C. PERRY-AYSCOUGH and R. B.
OTTER-BARRY. With an Introduction by SIR CLAUDE MCDONALD, K.C.M.G.,
K.C.B., etc. With numerous Illustrations from Photographs. Demy 8vo.
16s. net.

THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NAPOLEON. By JOSEPH TURQUAN. Translated from the
French by JAMES LEWIS MAY. New Edition. With 8 Illustrations. Crown
8vo. 3s. 6d. net.

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Transcriber’s Note

Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and
are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the
original.

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200.31 A tout l’[e/é]clat des roses. Replaced.
227.10 an English work entit[l]ed Inserted.
251.13 this e[ /n]counter> had evidently Restored
a5.36 of her min[i]ature court. Inserted.
a8.29 [“]A man who can write Added.
a10.19 [“]Extracts might be multiplied Added.
a15.13 will be fo[n/u]nd the authentic Inverted.